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I am on my bike again about the Music & Film Industry's Hardliner approach to copyrighted music. With teenage kids of my own and all my mates kids all have pirated music on their mp3 players and hard drives. That world make every Kid in Australia criminal according to RIAA (Recording Industry Of America) and MPIA (Motion Picture Industry of America). You would think that this Industry would wake up to themselves and start to get a better understanding of their market and how to use the P2P bitorrents to their advantage with compromising people privacy by getting courts to enforce that ISP's hand of IP Address Logs and logs. So are we going to local up every kid in Australia?
Let look a at a couple of more issues relating to this brute force mentality of trying to control the Internet.
Recording Industry Of America
They have a down loadable Pdf file Young People Music and The Internet
On Page 5 it states
One of the risks with P2P is that children may come across
unwelcome content such as viruses, pornographic substance or
violent images. Some files are purposely misnamed to trick people
into downloading them. Because of the way P2P services work,
filtering tools that can block offensive content like porn or violent
images and video on websites are not effective in blocking the same
content when made available through P2P. This leaves children
at risk.(Childnet, 2008)
It also continues to advise about the risks of virus, spyware and malware risk associated with P2P file sharing and I agree with these risks so with the 10 billion turnover you guys make out of dead artist should contribute a little bit more than a pdf file and lawsuits on the average punters. I agree those CD factories need prosecution as there are ripping you guys off but as for all the kids it a cult practice that they see as not breaking the law but enjoying the benefits that file sharing brings.
Motion Picture Industry Of America
Well MPIA haven't spent to much on the problem either their like on the web site is to a another domain http://www.copyrightkids.org/ that is owned by the Copyright Society Of USA yet they want you to put up your hard cash and give them billions of dollars and sue you because you watch the movie for free at your mates place. Now that is customer service for you. They can not get through their narrow minded heads what the Internet is about and how to capitalise on the problem. I have watched downloaded videos where some one sits in a theatre with a camcorder. and walked away. but the industry still see this as a problem. They should that those guys. I tried to watch Ocean 12 and the quality was so horrific that I became interested enough to rent the movie in high quality. I do not want to wait 3 days to down load 3 gig file to find out its rubbish so for $5.00 I can get the proper product from the local video shop. But with the Kids they do not care as one will be getting one movie and another will get another. Burn it to DVD and swap as required.
Its About Sharing
My other post about sharing on the Internet I talk about how the Internet successes is been about sharing yet these guy want to change that by using their obsolete copyright laws to convict innocent children for enjoying there product. RIAA & MPIA should be more proactive in investing in these kids and befriend them. If P2P File share is so risky then take control of this by providing a better product for kids to access music for free. You guys own the copyright so you guys have control if you wish to take control. Set up you own P2P file share for kids to access and provide a safe haven for them. Give them what they want and nurture them to towards your artist and and become loyal fans of your copyright. Be like Macdonald's Family Restaurants who understand if they have sold the kids at a young age then they become customers for many years. Then educate the children that commercial use of the material is illegal and serious fines will results in any one who infringes on those laws. Use the down loads to promote this and make it so the illegal cd presses have no need to set up shop as it will be free anyway.
A wedding I went to last year the DJ owned a local Computer Shop and had a laptop and hired some speakers from the music shop and now he has a Mobile Disco Tech. Does he own the music? Maybe he does but I would have my doubts that any techno nerd has paid for the 1000's of songs on the hard drive.
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Motion Picture Industry of America
Macdonald's Family Restaurants
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